OUGD401 - 'A Brief History of...' Brief and Research based on ideas.

'From Theory Into Practice'

Design, develop and produce a publication entitled; ' A Brief History of...' (completed with a subject of your choice).
A publication can be anything you can read and extract information on. This includes blogs, websites, motion graphics, books, & magazines etc.

• Think about your audience!
• Be creative with your format!
• Think outside the box!

The content of your publication could be based on something from what was studied in the 1st semester, but basically just has to show a deep understanding of a contextual subject or movement and it's impact on the audience and society of the time.

Evidence a deep knowledge of the...

• Historical & chronological information
• Social and cultural attitudes
• Technological advances
• Political attitudes

...of the time.

Be visual and experimental! Fulfil your choice of content and have fun with it.

Module deadline/ studio deadline: 7th May 2013.

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Creative publication inspiration

Ideas and development for this publication can be found here.

Disneyland History book; visual inspiration:

Disneyland Anaheim attractions when they were built:

Jungle cruise, 1955

Space mountain, 1975

Pirates of the Caribbean, 1967

Sleeping Beauty's castle, 1955

Bird animatronics from 'America Sings', 1974

Dumbo the flying elephant, 1955

Monsanto's House of the Future, 1957

Matterhorn, 1959

Mad Hatters tea cups, 1955

Looking into typical 1950's Disney-style illustration:

Screenshots from 'the Disneyland story'

Good typography could inspire different pages in the book?

I need a lot of reference photos of Walt for his illustration.

A good reference photo for the Disneyland story show illustration

The Jungle cruise - with photoshopped erased boat ready for an illustration.

The Frontierland lagoon around the time of Disneyland opening - ready for a paddle steamer illustration.

A picture of Main Street USA in Disneyland a week before opening. I wanted an image without any people on it, so I could add my own. I had to digitally remove Walt from the photograph and another man painting the tram tracks in the road, ready for my illustrated crowd. I also removed the sky and castle for my own illustration.

before and after sepia effect - a photograph I didn't use but was meant for the last page of the book. I wanted the photographs to all look similar and so some were made to look like they were from the 50's as opposed to the 60s-00s

I used the image on the left, and edited to make it black and white even though its from the early 00s. I used the left one rather than the right one, actually from the 50s because the perspective was better for my illustration.

Reference photo used for the illustration of the paddle steamer 

Another good reference photo - the image I would use in the background of the tv for the Disneyland story show.

a picture of a deserted and closed Coney Island.